Job Description

Are you a highly organised person, with project management experience who is passionate about the role human rights can play in the UK? Do you want to be at the forefront helping people to know what human rights are, to put human rights into practice, taking them off the law books and into our communities, and to ensure those in power respect and progress our legal framework?

BIHR is looking for a motivated, methodical and dynamic person to join our highly respected team as a Senior Human Rights Officer. You will bring at least four years of project management skills (or equivalent) delivering multiple programmes and have a good working knowledge of UK human rights law and what it means in practice outside of the courts. You will be an excellent communicator demonstrating the ability to build strategic relationships and influence decision-makers, as well as delivering training and educational resources.

You will be committed to working in a busy small team. Although based in London, BIHR works across the UK, this post therefore involves regular travel and overnight stays.

About BIHR:

Founded over 40 years the British Institute of Human Rights (BIHR) is an independent charity working to bring human rights to life here at home. We empower people to:

• know what human rights are (and often what they are not)
• use them in practice achieve positive change in everyday life without resorting to the courts, and
• to make sure those in power respect and progress our human rights laws and systems.

At the heart of everything we do is a commitment to making sure the international promise of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, developed after the horrors of World War II, is made real here at home. Our innovative work seeks to achieve a society where human rights are respected as the cornerstone of our democracy and enable each of us to live well in communities that value the equal dignity of each person.

Our education, research and advocacy work supports people and organisations to realise the potential of human rights to empower people and to transform organisations. By doing so, we inspire a new generation of organisations and individuals to recognise that human rights are the standards by which we should live, and to live up to their human rights responsibilities.